I know the importance of home care in the community and I know I did break it down on average just to see what it was in places like Yellowknife and some of the smaller communities that have a lot of our elderly senior citizens who don’t want to leave home and want to live that independent lifestyle in their community. Those are where we see some of the higher per capita
numbers, and I just want to make sure that we do have the services to support them.
Moving forward, I know I had some questions in the House, and it brought me on to seniors, which also deals with home care, but when I was looking at some of the policies and procedures under Seniors Action Plan, since it’s dealing under the territorial health services, the action plan hasn’t been updated. I’m not sure if there has been a report since 2003 on the action plan. A lot has changed since then. That’s been about 11 years. I just wanted to know if the Minister has any indication of when we’ll have a renewed action plan or if we’re going to get a report on some of the things that were outlined in the action plan. As we are getting into a higher senior population, I just want to make sure that’s addressed and we’re taking care of that moving forward and not trying to catch up after the fact.